LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 2 seed Long Beach State battled until the last minute against No. 3 seed UC Davis to secure their third straight Big West Championship final after a 12-10 win at the Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center.<\/p>\n
UC Davis (15-13) got on the board quickly, scoring on a backhand. Long Beach State (17-10) had the chance to tie on a five meter, but saw Eva Stein come up big and make the stop. Elisa Portillo<\/a> sneaked in on two counterattacks to score and put the Beach ahead in the first period, 2-1.<\/p>\n The Aggies tied the game early in the second before Daniela Quinzada<\/a>\u00a0put the Beach ahead once again. UCD added a penalty shot to tie the game once again, 3-3, but a 3-0 run by LBSU, after back-to-back goals from Lucy Miszewski<\/a>, forced a timeout by UC Davis. Portillo added her third of the day on a power play before the Aggies added a buzzer-beater from Chelsea Johnson to close the gap, trailing 7-4 at half.<\/p>\n A strong second half start by the Beach, scoring two goals in under one minute of play,\u00a0extended the lead to 9-4. Both teams traded goals before Johnson led the Aggies to close the third period with a 3-0 run to cut the margin to 10-8 with eight minutes left in the game.<\/p>\n Continuing their momentum, the Aggies closed the gap with Johnson’s fourth of the game, 10-9. Amoroso’s third of the day kept the Beach up by two with 4:38 left. UCD never stopped fighting, scoring another one with Lillie\u00a0Velhig, 11-10.<\/p>\n A backhand goal by Daniela Quinzada<\/a>, followed by two back-to-back field blocks from Miszewski and Rita Gurri<\/a>, sealed the win for the Beach and another chance to fight for the Big West title.<\/p>\n Ball drops at 2 p.m. against the No. 1 seed\u00a0Hawai’i live on ESPN+, with live stats available through TheFOSH.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0No. 2 seed Long Beach State battled until the last minute against No. 3 seed UC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-268536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}